A shortcut, which doesn’t depend on remembering the syntax for git branch –set-upstream 1 is to do: git push -u origin my_branch … the first time that you push that branch. Or, to push to the current branch from a branch of the same name (handy for an alias): git push -u origin HEAD You … Read more
What you are trying to do is called a sparse checkout, and that feature was added in Git 1.7.0 (Feb. 2012). The steps to do a sparse clone are as follows: mkdir <repo> cd <repo> git init git remote add -f origin <url> This creates an empty repository with your remote, and fetches all objects … Read more
You can use git show with a path from the root of the repository (./ or ../ for relative pathing): $ git show REVISION:path/to/file Replace REVISION with your actual revision (could be a Git commit SHA, a tag name, a branch name, a relative commit name, or any other way of identifying a commit in … Read more
git checkout master # first get back to master git checkout experiment — app.js # then copy the version of app.js # from branch “experiment” See also git how to undo changes of one file? Update August 2019, Git 2.23 With the new git switch and git restore commands, that would be: git switch master … Read more
git remote prune origin prunes tracking branches not on the remote. git branch –merged lists branches that have been merged into the current branch. xargs git branch -d deletes branches listed on standard input. Be careful deleting branches listed by git branch –merged. The list could include master or other branches you’d prefer not to … Read more
As long as you’re just renaming a file, and not a folder, you can just use git mv: git mv -f yOuRfIlEnAmE yourfilename (As of a change in Git 2.0.1, the -f flag in the incantation above is superfluous, but it was needed in older Git versions.)
Detached head means you are no longer on a branch, you have checked out a single commit in the history (in this case the commit previous to HEAD, i.e. HEAD^). If you want to delete your changes associated with the detached HEAD You only need to checkout the branch you were on, e.g. git checkout … Read more
The following command deletes all your stashes: git stash clear From the git documentation: clear Remove all the stashed states. IMPORTANT WARNING: Those states will then be subject to pruning, and may be impossible to recover (…).
Note: please see an alternative to git rebase -i in the comments below— git reset –soft HEAD^ First, remove the commit on your local repository. You can do this using git rebase -i. For example, if it’s your last commit, you can do git rebase -i HEAD~2 and delete the second line within the editor … Read more
The Easy Way™ It turns out that this is such a common and useful practice that the overlords of Git made it really easy, but you have to have a newer version of Git (>= 1.7.11 May 2012). See the appendix for how to install the latest Git. Also, there’s a real-world example in the … Read more